It’s the same reason they keep telling racist jokes that Henny Youngman would have found passe in 1952 — if they haven’t heard them before, then they must have come from their brilliant, groundbreaking minds. They certainly couldn’t be ideas that have already been tried and failed.

Are we sure that DougJ has not hacked the NYT website and posted a parody of a BoBo column?

Burkean Revivalists?

Even DougJ isn’t that good.

]]>By: jake the snakehttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3991077
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:42:20 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3991077Are we sure that DougJ has not hacked the NYT website and posted a parody of a BoBo column?

Krauthammer, Will, etc have pretty much been engaging in self-parody for years. I suppose BoBo could be doing the same.

I think Poe’s law is pretty much in effect among all conservative columnists.

I wonder being a Muslim and from Bangladesh, what prompted him to join the wingnut brigade.

Easy money. A brown muslim wingnut. Almost like a rare precious stone. It’s so much better to use a brown or black face to spout racist ideology. Same with Dinesh D’souza. I’m sure there must have been slaves who supported slavery, or jews for Nazis.

]]>By: schrodinger's cathttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990935
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:33:55 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990935What’s the deal with Reihan Salaam, I saw him on snooze hour the other day, he looks like the genie of Aladdin’s lamp. I wonder being a Muslim and from Bangladesh, what prompted him to join the wingnut brigade.
]]>By: RaflWhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990880
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:10:06 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990880@pseudonymous in nc: the Village (wired for Republicans) is always declaring GOP stars in the making.

Which is why there was a significant effort to wreck Nate Silver. He’s not playing along with the star-anointing.

]]>By: What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)https://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990850
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:58:59 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990850@Jewish Steel: Please don’t drag Selma Hayek into this. So far as I know she hasn’t done anything to deserve association with such bad company.
]]>By: Lexhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990827
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:47:45 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990827McArdle still couldn’t find the answer to 2 + 2 = 4 with both hands, a map and a calculator. Which doesn’t disqualify her from the GOP nomination, but still.
]]>By: FlipYrWhighttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990802
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:31:42 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990802@MaxxLange: I guess everything is new to someone.
]]>By: FlipYrWhighttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/20/star-power-star-power-star-power-over-me/#comment-3990796
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:29:43 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=120310#comment-3990796@Vasya: I don’t know about that. Burke was a flaming royalist who was very sure that rank and stratification were crucial to societal functioning–political revolution would pull to pieces a whole system that had been developed and passed down like an inherited estate. Less communitarian, more “your betters know best.”
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